The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-05-04

tfafy, it was not coined uftil B. G. go.
Silver. in its relative value to gold.
has varied greatly at different times.
In the days of Patriarch Abraham it
was eight to one; B. C. 1000 it was
twelve to one; B. c. 800 it was thir-
teen to onei at the commencement of
the Christian ere it was nine to one;
A. u. 500 it was eighteen to one; in
100 it was eight to one; in 1545 it was
six to one; in 1851 it was two to one;
in 1000 it was ten to one; in 1857 it
was thirteen to one; in 1900 it was fif-
teen and half to one. 1t maintained
the latter ratio until 1872, when it
began to rise, and in 1876 it attained
to twenty to one: it soon afterward
gradually declined. then advanced
again, and on the frat day of August,
1886 resehst ths highest point ever
known, twenty-five and one-quarter to
one, since which time it has again
gradually declined twenty to one.
SILVER, as regards its mines, is repre-
sented 10 every portion of our planet
The richest silver mine in the world is
at Potosi. 1t is situated on an elevaa-
ton of $4,000 feet above the level of
the sea, in region of perpetual snow.
1t has always been worked in a very
rude manner, yet it has already pro-
duced $3.50, 000 900 and shows no signs
of exhaustion. The highest silver de-
post in the world is on King Solomon's
mountain in Colorado, 1900 feet
above the Pacific ocean. The largest
nugget of silver yet obtained was dug
up in Arizona. and weighed 43. 200
ounces, valued at the same number of
dollars. The annual product of the
silver mines of North America is esti-
mated to be $50, O0O,O0O Their total
product has amounted to 81, SS5, 000,-
600, more than one-third of the entire
product of the world from the earliest
| times to the present day.
The silver mines of Mexico were
wrought long before Cortez revealed
them to the eyes of Europe in 1913.
Their annual product at the present
| Their total product had amounted 10
So, 900, 900, 900. In 1850 Nevada was
not reckoned among the silver-produc-
ing countries of the world. In 1867 she
could proudly point to annual product
of S13,0O0,000, but it has declined to
S6,000 900 at the present time. The
total product of silver in Nevada has
amounted to 1852, 600, O00 The annual
product of the silver mines of South
America is estimated to be S26 900, 900.
Their total product to the present time
/ has amounted to 50. 40, 100000.
The annual product of the silver
mines of America is estimated to be
Sill, 000,00 and their total product
has amounted to $685., 900, 900, more
than three-fifths of the entire product
of the world from the earliest
times to the present day. The
export of silver from the United
States since 1S4S has amounted
to 1851, TAG, III. The annual prod
net of the silver mines of Europe al
the present time is estimated to be S13,
600, 600, and their total product has
amounted to So. $3.50 The annual
product of the silver mines of Asia Gn-
Guiding Australia, New Zealand and
Oceania) is estimated to be 81, $50, 000
and their total product has amounted
to 81, 6S7, $50, 900.
India has often been represented a:
destitute of silver. but we have state.
ments from Sir Roderick Murchisor
that the Kulu Valley is so rich in silver
ore that it could yield large product
for future ages. The silver country O
Vasours comprises the mountainou:
regions between the Beas, Sainji ane
Parbutti rivers The mines, though
hitherto worked, are now almost for
cotton. The same is the case with the
Manikarn mines, hitherto known to bt
intellectually rich. The annual product
of the silver mines of Africa is esti
mated to be $4,000, and their tota
product from the earliest times to the
present day has amounted to $500, 600,
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